So far, Perris says, the business has grown in double digits since it first offered Quelques Fleurs in 2005.

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One potentially interested iguana buyer is Anshu Pathak, owner of Perris, Calif.

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But when the last descendant of the Houbigant family fell ill in the 1980s and began selling off the perfume brands, Michele Perris and his relatives, longtime devotees of the French brand, decided they had better start buying them.

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